MY LIFE AND JOURNEY: July 2006

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    Sunday, July 30, 2006

    Hot days

    Minggu kemaren udara disini bisa dibilang panas banget, pagi-pagi rasanya cepat sekali terang. Entah badan saya yang lagi tidak sehat atau udara yang panas sekali. Baru Sabtu dan Minggu hujan turun di pagi dan siang hari, syukurlah supaya tidak tertalu panas. Walaupun sudah punya rencana pergi BBQ ke tempat teman sekalian ngumpul bareng Indosing, akhirnya semua tertunda karena badan yang panas dan dingin.
















    Baru hari ini minggu berani keluar, itupun sekalian beli grocery buat mingguan. Wah walaupun great sale sudah berakhir, pemerintah sini memberi perpanjangan waktu buat street market berjualan sepanjang Orchard road ibarat pedagang kaki lima di Jakarta. Kadang saya merasa kasihan juga dengan pedagang kaki lima kita di Jakarta yang kadang di kejar-kejar buat penertiban. Hal itu jauh banget berbeda dengan di sini, semua serba teratur, walaupun para pedagang bisa berdagang sampai larut malam. Kadang ada juga street performance yang menjajakan musiknya di jalanan sambil promosi albumnya.

    Coba lihat karena panasnya hari ini, para pengunjung sampai antri panjang sekali untuk mencoba Turkish Ice cream.

    posted by Unknown @ 7:27 PM   0 comments

    Sunday, July 23, 2006

    Mustafe....eh Mustafa

    Setelah seharian mencari yang namanya "Kao Shampoo, Rice mild" sekitar Orchard supermarket dan sekitarnya, semua pada bilang sudah nggak jual. Hmm...akhirnya diputuskan untuk berkelana mencari ke Mustafa. Selalunya begitu, kalau di mana-mana store sudah tidak menjual lagi, ya jalan terakhir pasti mampir ke Mustafa. Ini yang ke tiga kali saya ke Mustafa selama tinggal di Singapore.

    Eh tempatnya udah di renovasi habis, mungkin karena kali terakhir ke sini waktu Indian light festival tahun lalu, eh semuanya sekarang serba terorganisir. Dari lantai satu ke lantai empat. Ada tempat tanam-tanaman juga, tempat lukisan.

    Banyak juga buatan Indonesia di jual di sini, yang surprisenya saya bisa menemukan made in Brastagi alias dari Medan Sumatra Utara tapi sirup Markissa tetap tidak ditemukan. Nah, bisa juga nih nggak malu-maluin bawa teman-teman yang hanya transit di malam hari, dan kehilangan kesempatan ber shopping ria, boleh juga tuh ke sana kan bukanya 24 jam... Click di sini untuk websitenya Mustafe..eh Mustafa.

    posted by Unknown @ 6:04 PM   0 comments

    Saturday, July 15, 2006

    Food Festival (2) - Diet

    Tinggal di downtown selama ini tentu saja penuh dengan banyak godaan, apalagi selama festival. Food festival kali ini menyajikan banyak sekali makanan dari berbagai negara tentu saja semuanya makanan asia. Hari ini saya mencoba makanan Vietnamese, tentu saja dengan kondisi saya yang lagi diet, sayur-sayuran dan buah-buahan menjadi pilihan. Kapan ya di Jakarta ada pameran seperti ini ?.

    Yang paling aneh hari ini kok banyak sekali ya orang pada antri di stall Japanese food - Donut. Saya jadi terheran-heran kok donut yang di buat jadi supermini jadi tontonan. Apa ya rasanya ?. Berhubung antriannya sangat panjang nanti lain kali saja dicoba, kan food festival sampai tanggal 30 July. Lain kali mau mencoba Taiwanese food dan Japanese food. Korean food mungkin tidak popular kali ya, soalnya saya tidak menemukan jenis makanan ini di food festival.


    Vietnamese food menyajikan berbagai vietnamese curry, laksa, fried beancurd. Tapi hari ini saya mencoba, Vietnamese manggo & Papaya salad, Spring roll dan Beancurd Cao (tahu digoreng dan dicampur udang dan sayur-sayuran).
    Dari stall Thai food, saya menemukan apple cake, coffee cake dan Japanese cake, lumayan buat dessert dicampur ice cream. Jadi, gimana dong dietnya ?. Mungkin senin sampai jumat rules buat diet harus tetap tapi sabtu dan minggu bisa mencoba segala jenis makanan, soalnya minggu ini bisa menurunkan 1 kilo berat badan, jadi boleh dong sedikit mencicipi makanan enak ya.

    posted by Unknown @ 8:29 PM   0 comments

    Saturday, July 08, 2006

    Street Food Festival (1) - Singapore

    After three times trip to Jakarta, I put on weight a lot but hmm....The difficult part is to lose weight. How to lose weight during this food festival ?.

    The month of July is the food festival here, last week I almost wanted to try the Chili crab, sound like fantastic to eat during the festival season but then these days are very hot in Singapore, I can imagine my stomach burnt with the Chili crab. My favorite food this week is Thai food, almost every year I hunt for the paste or sauce for my cooking at home especially for option with no MSG added, no artificial colours added and no preservatives added. Usually this kind of paste or sauce can only keep for less than one year. This year, "Thai choice"(Click for the web site) brand have here is Singapore, I search around and found this with no msg, no art colour, no preserv.

    I try Thai salad, papaya, mango, Thai beef salad and Thai seafood vermicelli salad, they were my favorite salad, ofcourse with a bit spicy chili. Pad Thai, green Chili curry are among the hot sale today. The festival will be end 30 July so still some new food to try.

    posted by Unknown @ 10:05 PM   0 comments

    End Block Sale - Apartment

    Those view days my mailbox was full of the property agent letter and to my surprise, I received many letters from many agents and attention to my name - dear owner. How do they know my name ?, event they call me in my landline and offer the agent service as this apartment is in the block sale.
    Almost 81% the owner of apartment have been agree to sell their apartment to a property agent. I love this apartment, this is in the heart of Orchard road Singapore, just around 100 meter from the main orchard area. I like Killiney road because there are full of small restaurants, from Japanese food, Indonesia-Malay food, coffee shop, Chinese food, Authentic sarawak food, Thai food, Latin America, Mexican, Italian etc... And NTUC supermarket. Almost every day, I can cook fresh food, the NTUC is just one block from my apartment. Oh, It is a very convenient place especially the apartment is very clean, quiet and big flat.

    Many apartments around have been renew, I think this apartment is one of the old one. The old apartment usually have a big living room and big bedroom. I talked to my agent a view days ago, the end block sale will take around 8 to 12 months if it is successful to 100% of owner agree to sell. So let's see how its goes, if the end block sale is successfully to 100%, then I have to find a new place.
    Hmm....a picture of Grace and Susy when they stayed in my apartment during the great sale.

    posted by Unknown @ 3:21 PM   0 comments

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